Car Culture

Car Culture is very important, Not Just in General, but to me. Cars bring people together all around the world, it doesn’t matter if you’re rich or your poor, everyone can get into it. It’s not about whether you have a car or can drive, for me the ever booming car culture has done so much for me. It makes others like myself feel like they have a place in this world when many other places may shut their door in our faces. Why do all of these people treasure their cars like family? Why do they show up even if they think their car is the “odd-ball?” What inspires people to make such big investments in which most will never see profit? These things even I do not know. But none the less I can’t help my urge that the aura of a beautiful car or engine pulls me in. Car gatherings have been around since cars came about. The reason is easy to look past because of its simplicity. People meet up because it gives them a feeling of security and it’s a culture that they are a part of. This culture will never shut its door in anyone’s face because anyone can be a part of it. Whether or not you know a thing about a car engine or frame. Car culture is also very important to the teens of America. The car meets keep teens and other people busy at night, the primary time teens tend to get in trouble. Though some do come to street race the street racers never park. They drive around the parking lot, making fun of people’s cars and trying to anger the innocent car enthusiasts (who came to show) to race. After the high desert cruise night was broken up there was a news paper article on it, it was interviewing one of the CHP officers who was part of the break up. He said that we were ALL a bunch of no good racers who are destroying the community and making it a more dangerous place. Because of a select few we all take the loss of our gathering, but we always find a new spot, and no one will ever kill our culture. CHPs decision to shut us down actually backfired on them. It’s very simple really; you have hundreds of car enthusiast, racers, and drivers, who have just been booted from a parking lot. Instead of having us all in one place where CHP can sit and watch us, they flooded us out into the streets on Friday and Saturday nights. I do think this was a bad Idea. Do they think this was the best decision for our and others safety? Do they enjoy a good car chase ending in a 17 year old boy and hit 16 year old girlfriend getting killed and smashed between a cars dashboard. So as we drive for miles and stop at red lights here and there what will we do when we are at a 4 lane intersecting at 11pm with the streets empty, our radar detectors on and our scanners scanning? We race. For cash, for our egos, for adrenaline, for nothing, we race…